Technical Leader Contracts in the City of London

Technical Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Lead daily rate in the City of London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 150 174
Rank change year-on-year +39 +24 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 14 22 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.60% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.64% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 12
10th Percentile £516 £547 £362
25th Percentile £577 £591 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -1.08%
75th Percentile £741 £750 £602
90th Percentile £763 £788 £671
Central London median daily rate £675 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -1.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Technical Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Technical Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leader in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leader in the City of London

Technical Leader
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leader within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £501 -
Technical Leader
Central London

Technical Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Technical Leader in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (35.71%) Coaching
5 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (28.57%) Marketing
5 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
5 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
5 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Finance
7 2 (14.29%) SAP
7 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Linux
7 2 (14.29%) DevOps
7 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (14.29%) Power BI
7 2 (14.29%) WhatsApp
7 2 (14.29%) Databricks
7 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
8 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (7.14%) Cost Reduction
8 1 (7.14%) Bicep
8 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
8 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (7.14%) RBAC
8 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.14%) Containerisation

Technical Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) WhatsApp
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (35.71%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
6 1 (7.14%) Information Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.14%) OO
6 1 (7.14%) OOD
6 1 (7.14%) Open Source
6 1 (7.14%) OSINT
6 1 (7.14%) TDD
6 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bicep
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) logstash
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Amdocs
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat